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(11) EP 0 492 944 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
19.11.1992 Bulletin 1992/47

(43) Date of publication A2:
01.07.1992 Bulletin 1992/27

(21) Application number: 91311720.6

(22) Date of filing: 17.12.1991
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: H01R 13/658, H01R 23/70
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT NL

(30) Priority: 20.12.1990 US 630716

(71) Applicant: THE WHITAKER CORPORATION
Wilmington, Delaware 19808 (US)

(72) Inventor:
  • Fedder, James Lee
    Etters, Pennsylvania 17319 (US)

(74) Representative: Warren, Keith Stanley et al
BARON & WARREN 18 South End Kensington
London W8 5BU
London W8 5BU (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) A high density connector system


    (57) A high density, high frequency connector system (10) has first and second mating connector members (12, 70) each member including a multi-row array of signal contact members (52, 102) disposed in columns, each said signal contact member being secured in a respective passageway. A multi-row array of ground contact members (58,110) is disposed between the columns of signal contact members (52, 102) each of the ground contact members (52, 102) having at least a body section secured in a respective profiled slot (42, 94). Each profiled slot (42, 94) has a width selected to be greater than the thickness of the ground body section and means for maintaining the respective ground body sections centered within the respective otherwise wider slot to define air reservoirs of a controlled width on both sides of each ground contact member.









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